“Our level of excellence will be improved if we sample from the most inclusive population.”
This and most of the other sentences caused big why’s to fly up from my brain.
Even “being a physicist isn’t easy” needs inspection. Once you are a physicist, what makes “being” one harder than, say, “being” a dentist or a classicist?
Perhaps that should read; "getting a job in physics, isn't easy".
Should be even easier when MIT starts pumping out physicists on par with womyn's studies and protest puppetry experts
What is a "physicist"? That question needs to be answered, before we can get into the distinction between "being" one and "becoming" one.
FWIW, I hold a BS degree in physics ...